P.34 Corporate Governance (Directors)

34 Corporate Governance Director Mitsuo Sugimoto Representative Director & CEO Years in Office 22 years Shares Held 7,409,600 shares Career / Concurrent Positions April 1991 Joined Recruit Cosmos Co., Ltd. (currently COSMOS INITIA Co.,Ltd.) July 1992 Joined Intelligence, Ltd. (currently PERSOL CAREER CO., LTD.) April 1993 Joined IR Japan, Inc. April 1997 Joined Strategic IR Co., Ltd. (currently The IR Corporation) October 1999 Appointed Director of the same company April 2001 Appointed Senior Managing Director of the same company October 2004 Established the Company, appointed Representative Director & CEO (current position) July 2019 Established SUG Asset Co., Ltd., appointed Representative Director (current position) January 2022 Outside Member of the Board of Directors, Unimedia Inc. (current position) Yasuyuki Hasumoto Senior Managing Director, CFO General Manager of Corporate Division Years in Office 9 years Shares Held 2,832,000 shares Career / Concurrent Positions April 2001 Joined Mitsubishi Corporation October 2013 Seconded to Lawson, Inc. May 2016 Returned to Mitsubishi Corporation January 2017 Appointed Managing Director and CFO of the Company January 2018 Appointed General Manager of Corporate Division of the Company (current) April 2019 Appointed Senior Managing Director and CFO of the Company (current) May 2020 Established Lotus Capital Inc. Appointed Representative Director (current) October 2020 Outside Member of the Board of Directors, NetMile, Inc. April 2021 Outside Member of the Board of Directors, Futonmaki Jiro, Inc. (current) Masaaki Kato Managing Director Jointly Responsible for the Corporate Communication Division Years in Office 8 years Shares Held 39,900 shares Career / Concurrent Positions April 1980 Joined Koyanagi Securities Co., Ltd. (currently Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., Ltd.) April 1983 Joined Kowa Printing Co., Ltd. April 1986 Joined International Communication Strategies, Inc. (currently FISCO Ltd.) March 1988 Joined IR Japan, Inc. November 1993 Established Strategic IR Co., Ltd. (currently The IR Corporation), Appointed Senior Managing Director January 2000 Established Alex Net Inc. (currently the Company), Appointed Representative Director June 2018 Appointed Managing Director of the Company (current) June 2018 Appointed General Manager of Corporate Communication Division of the Company January 2022 Appointed General Manager of Sales Division of the Company January 2024 Jointly Responsible for the Corporate Communication Division Akiyo Yamamoto Managing Director General Manager, Corporate Communication Division; Jointly Responsible for the Division Years in Office 8 years Shares Held 73,000 shares Career / Concurrent Positions April 1990 Joined International Communication Strategies, Inc. (currently FISCO Ltd.) November 1991 Joined IR Japan, Inc. March 1994 Joined Strategic IR Co., Ltd. (currently The IR Corporation) January 2000 Appointed Director of Alex Net Inc. (currently the Company) June 2018 Appointed Director of the Company January 2022 Appointed General Manager of Corporate Communication Division of the Company (current) March 2023 Appointed Managing Director of the Company (current)